After splitting the first two rounds, Hall spent the third
countering the Georgian and using his superior technique to his
advantage. It was enough to earn the 27-year-old a unanimous
decision: 29-28 from all three judges.

“I feel like I’m more crisp down the middle throwing strikes,” Hall
told Sherdog.com. “He wasn’t used to that. I noticed he was just a
sambo guy: grab you, take you down and choke the s--- out of you.
So I was just more, like, ‘Alright, let me play. Let me move and
get some swagga in and beat him with that.’”

Hall’s teammate, Jimmie
Rivera, overwhelmed Justin
Hickey en route to a unanimous decision and the Ring of
Combat bantamweight title. Rivera swept the scorecards by
matching 30-27 counts. It was his first outing since appearing on
Season 14 of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

“My whole goal was to perfect my game,” Rivera said. “I have some
holes in my game that I wanted to fix -- grappling, jiu-jitsu and
all that. I feel like I’ve done that.”

Meanwhile, Serra-Longo Fight Team member Ed Gordon
defeated Carlos
Brooks by unanimous decision -- 30-27, 30-27 and 29-28 -- for
the Ring of Combat light heavyweight strap. Gordon had one goal in
mind throughout the fight, as he took down Brooks in all three
rounds and kept him grounded for the majority of their 15-minute
battle.

“We came in knowing he had a lot of standup background,” Gordon
said. “He’s a 9-0 kickboxer. We figured that [we should] go to his
weakness -- his ground game. You have to give him credit because he
had some good stops for the takedown. We tried to mix it up and
throw him off a little bit.”

In the lone title bout not to go the distance, Guillermo
Serment submitted James
Jenkins with a first-round guillotine choke at 145 pounds.
Serment stunned Jenkins early, as he dropped and bloodied the
Serra-Longo Fight Team representative with a punch. In the
subsequent scramble on the mat, Serment secured the choke for the
submission 65 seconds into the match. With victory, came the Ring
of Combat featherweight crown.

In other action at Ring of Combat 41:

• Brooklyn MMA’s Soslan
Abanokov earned a majority decision over Tom English,
with 29-28, 29-28 and 29-29 scores from the judges. Abanokov fended
off rear-naked choke attempts in all three rounds;

• Long Island MMA’s Chris Wade
did not have an easy time taking a unanimous decision -- 30-27,
30-27 and 29-28 -- from Villi Bello
at 155 pounds. Wade had to fight off an inverted triangle choke
from Bello in the second round. He survived the attempt and
grounded Bello in round three to cement the decision;

• The unbeaten Liam
McGeary knocked out Walter
Howard with a left hook 41 seconds into the second round in his
stateside debut;

• Bellmore Kickboxing Academy export Andre
Harrison moved to 4-0 with a dominant victory over William
Metts. Harrison brought Metts to the mat and latched on a
rear-naked choke for the submission 3:27 into the opening
frame;

• Marlboro, N.J., featherweight Anthony
Facchini overpowered Kevin
Molina for an early takedown and parlayed the position into a
finish. He stopped Molina on punches 2:32 into the first round;